Emperor Crocodile
Creature — Crocodile
When you control no other creatures, sacrifice this creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #27932
Emperor Crocodile puts a 9/9 body on the board for four mana — elite stats at that cost — but it kills itself the moment you're the only one with a creature in play. Slap an Assault Suit on it to dodge the self-sacrifice trigger entirely, and suddenly you have a near-unkillable beatstick that also cycles around the table as a liability for your opponents.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Emperor Crocodile is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker. Pauper is where it sees the most honest use — a 9/9 at common is genuinely hard to ignore in a format starved of large bodies, and opponents almost always have creatures to suppress the drawback. In Commander the multiplayer board state usually keeps the self-sacrifice clause dormant, though a sweeper at the wrong moment will leave you exposed. In Legacy and Modern the floor is too low — four mana for a vanilla creature with a liability clause simply can't compete with what those formats are doing by turn four.
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Emperor Crocodile isn't currently available in the system, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given that it's a bulk common with narrow competitive appeal, expect to find copies for next to nothing.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.